France 1940: Blitzkrieg in the West (Campaign, Volume 3) by Alan Shepperd

By Alan Shepperd

The German victory of 1940 surprised the area. France, significant eu strength and proprietor of the world's greatest armies had fallen in lower than seven weeks to the could of the German Wehrmacht. the key of the Wehrmacht's luck lay in its conscientiously notion out association and the strategies of blitzkrieg. fast-paced tank divisions supported through armoured, cellular infantry swept over competition, helped by means of either traditional bombers and lethal Stuka dive-bombers. Alan Shepperd's hugely designated textual content examines the strategies, association and kit of the Allied and German forces, and offers an everyday account of the main an important interval of the battle.

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Amphibious Corps (formerly I Amphibious Corps), consisting of the reinforced 1st Marine. Division and the US Army's 81st Infantry Division, were earmarked for the landings - at Peleliu and Angaur respectively. The Japanese saw the 72km (45-mile) long Palau archipelago as a minor component in their distant defensive chain around the Philippines, but that did not mean they would surrender the islands without a fight. The Palaus were entrusted to Lieutenant-General Sadai Inoue's 14th Infantry Division and he opted to make Peleliu the cornerstone of his 37 The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the PRESIDENTIAL UNIT CITATION to the FIRST MARINE DIVISION (REINFORCED) for service as set forth in the following CITATION: For extraordinary heroism in action against enemy Japanese forces at Peleliu and Ngesebus from September 15 to 29, 1944.

Within a few weeks it was to undertake one of the most bloody but comparatively little known assaults of the whole Pacific campaign at Peleliu. THE BATTLE FOR PELELIU Operation Stalemate II, the plan for the 1st Marine Division to occupy Peleliu, one of the Palau Islands in the South-west Pacific, was controversial. Many senior US planning staff believed that the Palaus, lying about 1,280km (800 miles) south-east of the Philippines, could be safely bypassed and that their capture was not a vital prerequisite for the forthcoming landings in the Philippines by MacArthur.

The division left New Britain in late April and sailed for Pavuvu in the Russell Islands some 105km (65 miles) off the north-west coast of Guadalcanal, which had been overrun against minimal opposition during Operation Cleanslate in February 1943. The island was far from the tropical ideal; it was swamp infested, frequently deluged by heavy rain, and facilities were basic - food, medical facilities and recreational opportunities were meagre. Equally, the island and its immediate neighbours were unsuited for the conduct of amphibious training to bring the division and its new drafts of replacements back up to full effectiveness.

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